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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. Titan

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsquasardbSiteWhereAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20122012200920102012
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.1, April 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIHTTP RESTJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBaseyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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